Article updated: 11/20/2012 8:06 PM

Courting Asia, Obama finds that the world intrudes

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U.S. President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks during a meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, unseen, during the East Asia Summit at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday.

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President Barack Obama closed his Asian tour in diplomatic talks with leaders of Japan and China, their economic message overshadowed by security tensions over disputed waters and territories. The crisis between Israel and Hamas militants intervened, too, as Obama rushed his top diplomat straight from Cambodia to the Mideast.

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